Auto populate Item.json_data

src/webqueue2api/parser/item.py

@@ -72,26 +72,51 @@ def __init__(self, queue: str, number: int) -> None:
         self.department = self.__get_most_recent_header_by_type("Department")
         self.building = self.__get_most_recent_header_by_type("Building")
         self.date_received = self.__get_formatted_date(self.__get_most_recent_header_by_type("Date"))
+        self.json_data = self.__generate_json_data()
 
-        # TODO: Autopopulate jsonData w/ __dir__() command. Exclude `^_` and `jsonData`.
-        self.json_data = {
-            "queue": self.queue,
-            "number": self.number,
-            "lastUpdated": self.last_updated,
-            "headers": self.headers,
-            "content": self.content,
-            "isLocked": self.is_locked,
-            "userEmail": self.user_email,
-            "userName": self.user_name,
-            "userAlias": self.user_alias,
-            "assignedTo": self.assigned_to,
-            "subject": self.subject,
-            "status": self.status,
-            "priority": self.priority,
-            "department": self.department,
-            "building": self.building,
-            "dateReceived": self.date_received
-        }
+    def __generate_json_data(self) -> dict:
+        """Generates a JSON serializable data dictionary of class attributes.
+
+        Example:
+                __generate_json_data() returns:
+                {
+                    "assigned_to": 'bekuma',
+                    "building": '',
+                    "content": [...],
+                    "date_received": '2020-08-20T22: 06: 08+0000',
+                    "departmen"': '',
+                    "headers": [...],
+                    "is_locked"': False,
+                    "last_updated": '2021-06-04T11: 01: 00-0400',
+                    "number": 1,
+                    "path": '/home/pier/e/queue/Mail/ce/1',
+                    "priority": '',
+                    "queue": 'ce',
+                    "status": 'archiving from zsite',
+                    "subject": 'RE: Updating my computer',
+                    "user_alias": 'govind',
+                    "user_email": 'govind@purdue.edu',
+                    "user_name": 'Govindaraju, Rao S'
+                }
+
+        Returns:
+                dict: JSON serializable data dictionary of class attributes.
+        """
+        json_data = {}
+
+        # List of attributes that need processing before being added to json_data
+        attributes_to_process = ["path"]
+        for attribute in attributes_to_process:
+            if attribute == "path":
+                json_data[attribute] = str(self.path)
+
+        # List of attributes to be ignored
+        attributes_to_ignore = ["to_json", "json_data"] + attributes_to_process
+        for attribute in self.__dir__():
+            if not attribute.startswith("_") and attribute not in attributes_to_ignore:
+                json_data[attribute] = self.__getattribute__(attribute)
+
+        return json_data
 
     def __get_time_last_updated(self) -> str:
         """Returns last modified time of item reported by the filesystem in mm-dd-yy hh:mm am/pm format.